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Description: | A Medieval copper alloy heraldic stud which was probably mounted on harness. It is shield shaped and the arms are "azure, a lion rampant queue Fourchy Or or Argent" (a lion rampant with a forked tail on a blue background). According to PAS record IHS-D30AA4, this device was most likely to have been used by Robert de Stapleton of Stapleton in Shropshire and Staffordshire, who was summoned to serve against the Scots in 1297, 1301, and 1319, and recorded as living in 1324. Robert used azure, a lion rampant queue fourchy or, and may have been a relative of the Miles de Stapleton who is recorded as using argent, a lion rampant sable, sometimes queue fourchy. Miles de Stapleton was constable of Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, in 1300, and steward of the household of the future Edward II in 1306; he died at Bannockburn (1314).No gilding survives on this stud, so it is not possible to say if the lion was golden or silver. Most of the blue enamel survives. On the reverse is a thick circular sectioned integral rivet.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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